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New extraction of CP violation in b-baryon decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-07 v2

Abstract

We study CP violation in b-baryon decays of ΞbΞD\Xi_b^- \to \Xi^- D with D=D0,Dˉ0D = D^0, \bar{D}^0 and Di (i=1,2)D_i~(i=1,2). We find that these baryonic decay processes provide an ideal opportunity to measure the weak phase due to the absence of the relative strong phase. Explicitly, we relate ρˉ\bar{\rho} and ηˉ\bar{\eta} the CKM elements with the decay rate ratios of Ri=Γ(ΞbΞDi)/Γ(ΞbΞD0)R_i= \Gamma(\Xi_b^- \to \Xi^-D_{i} ) / \Gamma( \Xi_b^- \to \Xi^-D^0 ) without the charge conjugate states. As a complementary, we also examine the decay distributions of ΛbΛ(pπ)D\Lambda_b \to \Lambda(\to p \pi^- ) D. There are in total 32 decay observables, which can be parameterized by 9 real parameters, allowing the experiments to extract the angle γarg(VudVub/VcdVcb)\gamma\equiv \arg(-V_{ud}V_{ub}^*/V_{cd}V_{cb}^*) in the CKM unitarity triangle. In addition, the feasibilities of the experimental measurements are discussed. We find that ρˉ\bar{\rho} and ηˉ\bar{\eta} can be extracted at LHCb Run3 from ΞbΞD\Xi_b^- \to \Xi^- D, and a full analysis of ΛbΛ(pπ)D\Lambda_b \to \Lambda(\to p \pi^-)D is available at LHCb Run4.

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@article{arxiv.2206.00348,
  title  = {New extraction of CP violation in b-baryon decays},
  author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Xiang-Nan Jin and Chia-Wei Liu and Zheng-Yi Wei and Jiabao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00348},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted by PLB